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True Believer

Former celebrated civil liberties attorney now reduced to defending drug dealer; suddenly find his interest awakened by an old case

Program data

Duration:
120

Production Year:
1989

MBC 2:

September 9, 201410:30 (KSA) ~
September 9, 201409:30 (CLT)

James Woods is Eddie
Dodd, in this courtroom criminal drama, as a once big
shot attorney and civil Liberties defender; now relegated to the bottom of the
ladder, having to contents with defending low lives and drug dealers. On the
other hand, is Roger Baron (Robert Downey Jr.) a freshly graduate from law
school; and a big fan of the senior defender, having been following his illustrious
career since long and now he wants to be his pupil. Reluctant at first Eddie
decides to take him under his wing. With young blood, on his side, Eddie with
the idealistic young lawyer pushing him, he decides to take on an 8 years old murder
case, involving a falsely imprisoned Korean man.

A tense and
thrilling courtroom drama, starring the then hot shot James Wood and a young
Robert Downey Jr. before he became iron man.